Ebenezer
Pitts
Born about in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Ebenezer Pitts
and Prudence (Pratt) Pitts
Brother of
Prudence Pitts, Lydia (Pitts) Learned, Mary Pitts [half], Hanover Pitts [half], Sybil Pitts [half], Rebecca (Pitts) Briggs [half] and Deliverance (Pitts) Phillips [half]
Husband of
Mary (Ellis) Pitts
— married
after 5 Dec 1778 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Died
at about age 74
in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States
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Biography
Birth
- Ebenezer Pitts was born about 1757, probably at Taunton, Massachusetts.[1] the son of Ebenezer Pitts and Prudence (Pratt) Pitts. (Need a source for his parents.)
Marriage
- Ebenezer Pitts and Mary Ellis published their intention to marry at Raynham, Massachusetts, on 5 Dec 1778.[2]
Death
- Ebenezer Pitts died at Livermore, Maine, in April 1831.[3] He is buried at a small private cemetery near Berry Hill in Livermore with his wife, two infant children, and a grandchild.[4]
Research Note
I am adding the Ancestry link, because I am working on the Pitts family here in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. I believe that this Ebenezer was born to the first wife of Ebenezer Sr. who then married my relations. There is a road next to mine that is called Pitts Rd in Richmond and Sullivan Township here in Pennsylvania and I have been identifying the roads and their heirs for some time. He would be a half brother to (1. Hanover1 Pitts, son of Ebenezer Pitts and Lydia Cudworth, (#621) was born in Ward, Massachusetts 1764. Hanover died AFT 1850 at age unknown.)
Sources
- ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), Page 36
- ↑ Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880, online database: AmericanAncestors.org (From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015), John Alden, Volume 16, Part 5, Page 196 (subscription required)
- ↑ Georgia Drew Merrill, editor, History of Androscoggin County, Maine (Boston, 1891), page 850
- ↑ Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, database with images, FamilySearch, Pinkham, M A-Pollard, Melvin > image 487 of 1606; Maine State Library, Augusta.
See also:
- https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/ebenezer-pitts_16237383
- https://www.joycetice.com/srgp/srgp0621.htm
Acknowledgements
Pitts-1979 was created by JoAnn Miller through the import of Pitts Family Wiki.ged on Oct 10, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ebenezer by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ebenezer:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ebenezer by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ebenezer:
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